Mother Mary Constance, the sister of Mother Maddalena, was greatly devoted to St. Aloysius. He played a part in her vocation to Religious life: Even as a child, Constance imposed very extraordinary mortifications upon herself in preparation for some special feasts. She possibly owed her religious vocation to one such act of self-denial. It was after her school-girl days at the Trinita’ when once, on the feast of Saint Aloysius, to whom she was deeply devoted, it came to her mind, as she was going to Benediction services, that she had done nothing special in preparation for his feast. Then and there she resolved to make up for her negligence: I will not raise my eyes this afternoon, no, not even to look at anything in church. It so happened that some of her brothers, with a view for the eventual marriage of fair Constance, had for that very afternoon arranged to draw her attention upon a previously advised young nobleman. They, in turn, were greatly mortified when they did not succeed by any artifice whatsoever in inducing her to raise her eyes to her suitor, not even when they introduced him to her. (Kleber)